| Real Estate – Green Aisles Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is clearly about Real Estate touring as a young band, riding around in their van through the 'green aisles' of trees along the highway. The song looks back with nostalgia on those early days, when they were still unknown, and affirms that all their "wasted" miles and "aimless" drives weren't so unwise after all--that it amounted to something in the end (the success of their band), despite all the difficulty and risk that it took, and despite family & economic pressure to make a practical living. That is, this song celebrates the eventual practicality of their impractical decision to make music. The "you" is a girlfriend who was always waiting for them to come back from tour, who believed in them. It's this secret bond of mutual reassurance that it's going to all come together in the end. Which it does. |
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